Money in Blogging Part 2: Affiliate Marketing

On the first part of my article about Money in Blogging, I've already said that anyone could earn money through affiliate marketing with the use of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or SEM (Search Engine Marketing) and I can still say that it is still the best way to earn money. 

Tons of affiliate marketing products can be sold in your blogger and these companies are just waiting for you to link them to their customers. Being an affiliate merchant is not that easy, that is why it is also an investment to learn affiliate marketing. It's been years of being an affiliate merchant and I still learn new mistakes I did and learned new tricks too.

Here are some sample affiliate marketing products:

• Google Adsense
• Amazon
• Bidtraffic

Important steps in affiliate marketing.

1. Look for an in-demand product that you are interested too (it is easier to market a product that you love or know already, right?)
2. Find the niche that works.
3. Build a system around it (website or blog, SEO it with your niche).
4. Make it appealing (nice blog or web design).
5. Promote it.

Helpful links to learn more about affiliate marketing: Learn Affiliate Marketing the Easy Way

Clixsense 4th Payment Proof

Yey! Another premium member joined my referral which gave me another chance to cash-out earnings from Clixsense. I would like to thank Clixsense Team Philippines for its continued growth and for continued honest effort of the administrator.

Clixsense started the PTC business around year 2007 and still is honestly paying their members while Clixsense Team Philippines is a group of all-premium members (yes, all of them are premium members) who wants to assure of a better earning from Clixsense which also gave members a chance to have a residual income.

Joining at Clixsense doesn't require members to have referrals to earn money. For more information about (CSTPH) Clixsense Team Philippines, click here.

Goodbye Adsense!

I just got an email from Google telling me that they have deactivated my Adsense account for invalid clicks. I've been maintaining its integrity for years and now they have deactivated it. According to their TOS and FAQ about these cases their are NO POSSIBILITIES of ever recovering my account or even apply for a new one. Too bad, I was preparing a new template for my two blog's template for a better Adsense ad placement but now it is gone.

A friend told me that I could try and appeal to Google by calling them but I won't do that since it is not worth the time and long-distance call. The call could probably cost more than the money on that account so why waste time, effort and money - I could probably get denied anyways. I was a bit sad but not that sad, now I know the reason how they get lots of money.

So to Google Adsense --- goodbye! It was educational.

Adsense On Demand on your Mobile!

I remembered a fellow-blogger commented about how he used to monitor his Adwords or Adsense almost every hour or 2 to see which of his keywords and niches did great in his blog. Imagine how would you feel when you are outside and you have the need to check the status of your earnings in Adsense. You might just get frustrated when you can't see most of the screens when you login to Adsense with your mobile.

Understanding Chitika

A few days ago, I've joined Chitika to have a feel and to check if I am going to earn more from them than Google's Adsense. Chitika and Adsense are currently battling over which is the better Affiliate Marketing for all publishers, of course adsense has a lot to offer but sometimes great opportunities come from small things.

One thing I have noticed about Chitika ads is that they are not using my topic as basis for its advertisement. Instead of using my sites current topic that the user is viewing, it is using the users previous searches which is I think is good since the user could have probably gone to my site accidentally. I tried to experiment and made a new search at Google and then went back to one of my articles, refresh the page and found my previous search offered on their widget – COOL!

My Adsense and Adwords Adventure!

I remember when I received my free $100 Adwords credit. Since then, I realized the value of terms SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PR (PageRank), backlinks, etc... It was a very thrilling experience for me and I have Google to thank for that. Excitement fill my day everytime I visit my Adsense. One time, I got depressed over a click which costed about $16 (just one lousy click!) - that was for using their automatic setting. It was a price you have to pay in order to learn this stuffs especially Affiliate Marketing with Google Adsense.

How to Insert Google Adsense in a Single Post

Even wonder how you can put your adsense ads on your post? Okay, here are the instructions on how you can make an Google Adsense Ad in your post. First thing you will do is:

1. Back-up your blog's theme. Backup and Restore Blog Theme. Do this just in case you make some mistakes and you accidentally deleted some codes in your blog's theme.

2nd Adgitize Payout!

Here is my 2nd Payout from Adgitize.



Hey! I just had another payout from Adgitize - it's my second time now. I'll update this post later and try to capture a screenshot of my payout as another proof of my payout.

By the way, thanks to Adgitize for the rollback of their advertisement prices - they are still the best. Their ads is still the cheapest among any other in the internet. With a price of $14 a month - check it out yourself - be a member and let your advertisement work to get you even more than you have paid for.

Later guys.

HOW to Center Google Adsense in your Blogger and Add Your Own Ad

First of all, before you do such thing it is best to Back-up Your Current Template by downloading your template, refer to this page if you don't know how to do it - Click here.

Okay, we may start now.

1. In your Dashboard, choose the Layout. Choose Edit HTML.
2. Check the Expand Widgets Templates.
3. Look for this entry:

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'>

You should see the following below or somewhat like this;

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'<
<data:adEnd>
<data:adCode>
<data:adStart>
</b:if>

4. Make it look like this;

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'>
<center>
<data:adEnd>
<data:adCode>
<data:adStart>
</center>
</b:if>

5. That's it, your Google Adsense is now centered.
6. BONUS. You can even ad your very own advertisement below it or above it or totally replace your google ad with whichever affiliate tool you have. Try the code below and customize it:

<b:if cond='data:post.includeAd'>
<center>
<data:adEnd>
<data:adCode>
<data:adStart>
</center><br/>
<!-- Your own link text -->
<center>
<a
href='http://xleontips.blogspot.com/2009/10/premium-ads-services.html'>Advertise
with US!</a>
<br/>
</center>
<!-- End own Ads -->
</b:if>

7. Enjoy, and thanks for visiting.

Replacing your Google Adsense with Own Ad
Do not disable adsense from the layout, leave it as it is. Format your code like this:

<!-- data:adEnd -->
<!-- data:adCode -->
<!-- data:adStart -->

Your code below will be the one shown and the Google Adsense will not show anymore.